STANFORD SYMPOSIUM ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013

7:30- 9:00 Opening Plenary, Cemex Auditorium Grassroots, Netroots, and Strategists: Bloggers, Activists and Leaders in the Marriage Fight

Joe Sudbay, Blogger/Activist and President, Sudbay Strategies Michelangelo Signorile, Sirius XM Robin McGehee, Co-Founder, GetEqual Chad Griffin, Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

9:15 Fri morning welcoming comments Elizabeth Magill, Dean, Stanford Law School

9:30-10:00 The Marriage Debate Twenty Years On: Taking Stock Jane Schacter, Stanford Law School

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15- 12:30 The Effects of Marriage (In)Equality on and Men

Moderator: Corey Fields, Stanford University Department of Sociology

Ellen Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky, University of Kentucky “For Better or Worse: The Impact of Marriage Law and Discourse on LGBT and Same-Sex Couple Well-Being.”

Patrick Egan, New York University "Gay Political Identity after Marriage Equality."

Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College Andrew Flores, UC-Riverside and UCLA “Marriage and the Shifted Priorities of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People.”

M. V. Lee Badgett and Jody Herman, UCLA “Counting couples: Learning about same-sex couples from state administrative data.”

12:30-1:45 Lunch (on your own)

1:45-3:30 Perspectives on Gender and Geography in the Marriage Debate

Moderator: Jane Schacter, Stanford Law School

Suzanne Goldberg, Columbia Law School “Sex and Marriage”

William Baude, University of Chicago Law School “New Puzzles in Interstate and Federal Recognition of Same-sex Marriage"

Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY “Sex Classification and Same-Sex Marriage: Transgender Recognition is Yoked to Marriage”

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:00 Race and the Political Dynamics of the Marriage Issue

Moderator: Prudence Carter, Stanford University Graduate School of Education

S. Nicole Cathey, Tougaloo College “Rethinking Civil Rights: Race, Religion and Same-Sex Marriage in Washington, DC”

Melissa Michelson, Menlo College, and Brian F. Harrison, Wesleyan University “It Does Matter if You’re Black or White (or Brown)”

Commentor: Dara Strolovitch, Princeton University

5:30-6:50 Reception and Dinner for Conference Presenters and Invited Guests

7:00 – 9:00 Cemex Auditorium PLENARY: Litigants and Litigators, Windsor and Perry.

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, Plaintiffs in the Prop 8 Case Jeff Zarillo and Paul Katami, Plaintiffs in the Prop 8 Case Edie Windsor, Plaintiff in Windsor v US Chad Griffin, Founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights Theane Evangelis of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, attorney in Perry Jeremy Goldman of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner, attorney in Perry Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2013

9:30 Sat morning welcome

9:45-12:00 Reflections on Windsor, Perry and the Constitution

Moderator: Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law School

William N. Eskridge, Jr, Yale Law School “Marriage Equality: Constitutionalism, Originalism and Dynamic Religious Doctrine”

Thomas Berg, University of St. Thomas School of Law “Protecting Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty After Windsor”

Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School “Dignities”

Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of Law "As A Matter of Fact: The Establishment and Review of Legislative Facts in Hollingsworth v. Perry"

12:15-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:45-3:30 The Old-Fashioned Politics of the Marriage Movement: Policy and Opinion in the Wake of Perry and Windsor

Moderator: Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Law School

Charles Anthony Smith, University of Irvine “Is there really any opinion backlash to litigation-secured rights?”

Logan S. Casey, Christopher Skovron, and Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan

“Institutional Variations, Opinion Backlash, and the Constitutionality of Same-Sex Marriage”

Jeffrey Lax, Columbia University “The Political Power of Gays and Lesbians: Opinion v. Policy in the States, in Congress, and in Court”

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:00 Alternatives to Marriage: Still in the Mix?

Moderator: R. Richard Banks, Stanford Law School

Douglas NeJaime, UC-Irvine School of Law “Before Marriage: The Unexplored History of Nonmarital Recognition and Its Relationship to Marriage”

Melissa Murray, UC-Berkeley School of Law “In Windsor's Wake: New Paradigms for State Recognition of Relationships?”

Comments by Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford Sociology

Biographies of Organizers

Jane S. Schacter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford. Her work focuses on statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and sexual orientation law. Her work has been published in numerous law journals, and she co-edits casebooks on constitutional law and sexual orientation law. Her most recent work has focused on various aspects of the debate over same-sex marriage, an issue that lies at the intersection of her teaching and research interests. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2006, Professor Schacter was professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, as well as the University of Michigan Law School.

Gary M. Segura, is a Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a – Latino/a Studies at Stanford University, and principal and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions™. His work focuses on issues of political representation, with specific emphases on the politics divided government, public opinion and war, and America’s growing Latino minority. Among his most recent publications are "The Future is Ours:" Minority Politics, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics, (Congressional Quarterly, 2011) and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Earlier work includes Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (2010, Temple University Press), “Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa: Latino Politics Research and the Development of American Political Science,” (2007), in the American Political Science Review, “Race and the Recall: Racial Polarization in the California Recall Election,” (2008) in the American Journal of Political Science, and “Hope, Tropes, and Dopes: Hispanic and White Racial Animus in the 2008 Election,” (2010) in Presidential Studies Quarterly. Earlier research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, the National Civic Review, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Rationality and Society. Segura is one of three Principal Investigators of the 2012 American National Election Studies, is a past-President of the Midwest Political Science Association and the current President of the Western Political Science Association 2013-14. Segura served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, United States v. Windsor, and several other cases on DOMA and marriage equality. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biographies of Presenters

M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar and former research director of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA. Her most recent book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same- Sex Marriage (NYU Press, 2009), focuses on the U.S. and European experiences with marriage equality for same-sex couples. Prof. Badgett has testified on her work before Congress and many state legislatures, and she was an expert witness in California’s Prop 8 trial.

Ralph Richard Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor, by courtesy, at the School of Education. A native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Stanford University (AB/AM 1987) and Harvard Law School (JD 1994), Banks has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1998. Prior to joining the law school, he practiced law at O'Melveny & Myers, was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, and clerked for a federal Judge, the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. (then of the Southern District of New York). Professor Banks teaches and writes about family law, employment discrimination law, and race and the law. He is the author of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone, which has been reviewed or featured by a wide range of print and broadcast media, including the New York Times, the , the Economist, ABC NEWS/Nightline, NPR and many others. At Stanford, he is affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and the Ethnicity, the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. His writings have appeared in a wide range of popular and scholarly publications, including the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

William Baude will, in January, become the Neubauer assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago, teaching federal courts, constitutional law, and conflicts of law. Until recently, he was a fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Before entering academia, he clerked for then-Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit and for Chief Justice John Roberts on the U.S. Supreme Court. His most recent articles are “Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power,” 122 Yale L.J. 1738 (2013), and “Beyond DOMA: State Choice of Law in Federal Statutes,” 64 Stan. L. Rev. 1371 (2012), the latter of which was cited by Justice Scalia's dissent in United States v. Windsor.

Tom Berg is the James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), where he teaches and writes on constitutional law, religious liberty, law and religion, and intellectual property. He is author of four books, including both a leading casebook and West’s Nutshell book on religion and the Constitution; dozens of scholarly and popular articles; and numerous briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts, including a co- authored brief in U.S. v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry arguing for protection of same-sex marriage and religious liberty. He has served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs and director of its Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy. He is or has been a member of governing or advisory boards for a number of organizations in the law/religion field, as well for the Democrats for Life of America. He has degrees from the University of Chicago, in both law and religious studies; from Oxford University, in philosophy and politics (as a Rhodes Scholar); and from Northwestern University, in journalism.

Prudence L. Carter is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University. Professor Carter’s research and teaching expertise are in the areas of social inequality and the sociology of education, with a particularly focus on race, ethnicity, class, gender, culture and identity. She is the author of the award- winning book, Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White and Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. & South African Schools, and co-editor of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance (all published by Oxford University Press). Her most recent research focused on cultural flexibility, social boundaries, and group dynamics among educators and students in different school contexts. Professor Carter is the newly appointed faculty director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.

Mary Anne Case is currently Arnold I..Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago, previously a litigator for Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Professor and Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia, 2004 Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, 2006–07 Crane Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and 2013 Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School. Scholarship to date has concentrated on the regulation of sex, gender, sexuality, and the family and on the early history of feminism, but includes other work in constitutional and comparative law.

S. Nicole Cathey, Ph.D. is a native of Jackson, MS. She has both academic and professional backgrounds in Communications, Religion, Public Administration and Political Science. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she looks at the intersections of race, religion, gender and sexuality. Her current project, “Rethinking Civil Rights”, examines factors that are contributing to the racial, political and religious tensions surrounding same-sex marriage legislation in the U.S. among African-American churches and communities. She is a recent graduate of Howard University and currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tougaloo College.

Paisley Currah teaches political science and gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah is a founding editor, with Susan Stryker, of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a new journal from Duke University Press. With Monica Casper, he edited Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (2011). Recent articles include: “Homonationalism, State Rationalities, and Sex Contradictions” (Theory & Event, 2013) and “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Gender Non-conforming Bodies at the Airport” (Social Research, 2011). His book, States of Sex: Regulating Transgender Identities (NYU, forthcoming) looks at contradictions in state definitions of sex.

Patrick J. Egan is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at NYU, and an expert in public opinion, public policy and their relationship in American politics. He is author of Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He is also co-editor of Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy, published by Oxford University Press in 2008. His research has appeared in academic journals including the Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, and his writing has been published in media outlets such as the New Republic and the New York Times. Before entering academia, he served as an Assistant Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning in the office of Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

William N. Eskridge, Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. His primary legal academic interest has been statutory interpretation. Together with Professor Philip Frickey, he developed an innovative casebook on Legislation. In 1990-95, Professor Eskridge represented a gay couple suing for recognition of their same-sex marriage. Since then, he has published a field-establishing casebook, three monographs, and dozens of law review articles articulating a legal and political framework for proper state treatment of sexual and gender minorities. The historical materials in the book on Gaylaw formed the basis for an amicus brief he drafted for the Cato Institute and for much of the Court's (and the dissenting opinion's) analysis in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which invalidated consensual sodomy laws. His most recent books are Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 (2008), and A Republic of Statutes: Our New American Constitution (2010) (with John Ferejohn). Professor Eskridge received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Davidson College, his masters in History from Harvard, and his J.D. from Yale.

Theane Evangelis is an appellate and general litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She specializes in appellate and constitutional law, class actions, and media and entertainment disputes. Theane served as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court before joining Gibson Dunn. Theane served as counsel to the Plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the first federal constitutional challenge to a same-sex marriage ban. Theane has been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 20 Lawyers Under 40 in California and by Law360 as a “Rising Star” in Appellate Litigation.

Corey Fields is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from Northwester University. Corey's main interests are race, identity, and culture. Within those areas, his research is driven by an interest in the role of identity – at both the individual and collective level – in structuring social life across a range of contexts. He is currently writing a book, “Black Elephants in the Living Room: Race and the Unexpected Politics of African-American Republicans,” that uses the experiences of African-American Republicans to explore the dynamic relationship between race and political behavior in contemporary U.S. politics. He uses a range of methods to analyze the role of identity in social life, including ethnography, interviews, and secondary analysis of survey data.

Andrew R. Flores is Public Opinion Project Director at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law and a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Riverside. His research includes questions of gays and lesbians in the American democratic process, from intra-group politics and public opinion to representation.

Suzanne B. Goldberg is the Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she also founded and directs the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic and co-directs the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Professor Goldberg’s writing has focused on barriers to equality, including antidiscrimination law frameworks and the evolution of equality law related to social groups. Her recent work in this area includes Discrimination by Comparison (Yale Law Journal) and Sexuality and Equality Law, an edited volume (Ashgate). During the 1990s, Professor Goldberg spent nearly a decade as a lawyer with Lambda Legal, where she was counsel on a wide range of cases, including two that became landmark gay rights victories – one striking down a Colorado antigay amendment and the other striking down Texas’s “Homosexual Conduct” law. More recently, Professor Goldberg was active in the two marriage cases before the Supreme Court, filing amicus briefs in both Hollingsworth v. Perry and U.S. v. Windsor. Professor Goldberg graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1990 and from Brown University in 1985, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore from 1985-86.

Jeremy Goldman is a partner in the Oakland office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He served as second chair to David Boies during the Prop 8 trial, and was responsible for the day-to-day management of the litigation, heading a team of lawyers from several of the firm's offices around the country. He maintains an active practice as a commercial litigator, representing clients in both federal and state courts at trial and on appeal. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2001, Mr. Goldman clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. in political science and philosophy from the University of Toronto, and also completed graduate degrees in political theory, receiving his M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997. Before attending law school, he was a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University.

Brian Harrison is Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. His two research agendas use experiments to investigate the effects of elite polarization on individual attitude formation and to test theories of persuasion on controversial issues like marriage equality. His work has been supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation and Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. His work has been published in Political Behavior and has a book under contract at Yale University Press (with Melissa Michelson). Brian is also the most recent winner of the 2013 Timothy E. Cook Award, awarded to the best graduate student paper in political communication from the previous year’s American Political Science Association conference.

Pam Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford, co-directs its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. The Clinic was co-counsel for Edith Windsor in United States v. Windsor (2013), where the Supreme Court held that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Karlan's scholarship focuses on constitutional law and civil rights. Among her articles are several discussing marriage equality, including The Gay and the Angry: The Supreme Court and the Battles Surrounding Same-Sex Marriage, 2011 Sup. Ct. Rev. 159; Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 697 (2010); and Same-Sex Marriage as a Moving Story, 16 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 1 (2005).

Jeffrey R. Lax (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University) studies American politics, focusing on judicial politics and on public opinion. The former includes special interests in bargaining on collegial courts, the politics of legal doctrine, compliance in the judicial hierarchy, and methodologies for studying judicial decision-making. He also studies responsiveness to public opinion, with projects on improving estimation of public opinion at the sub-national level, the efficacy of majoritarian institutions, the effects of public opinion on the civil rights of gays and lesbians, policymaking in the states, and the confirmation of Supreme Court justices. This line of work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. http://www.columbia.edu/~jrl2124/

Arthur Lupia is the Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and research professor at its Institute for Social Research. His research clarifies how information and institutions affect policy and politics, with a focus on how people make decisions when they lack information. He is regularly asked to advise scientific organizations and research groups on how to effectively communicate science in politicized contexts. He is Chair of the Social, Economic, and Political Sciences section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the Midwest Political Science Association. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Award for Initiatives in Research. Dr. Lupia received in B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.

Robin McGehee is a Southern transplant who lives in Fresno, CA and is a Communication professor at the College of the Sequoias. The recipient of a 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for her work on youth empowerment, she responded to the 2008 Prop 8 loss, after being thrown off the PTA at her son's elementary school -- by organizing a march called Meet in the Middle in Fresno -- drawing attendance from the entire state. She was then recruited to co-direct a national March on Washington, the turned out over 250,000 in 2009. In 2010, she co-formed GetEQUAL in an effort to call for full equality for LGBT people. Her journey post prop 8 led to pictures of her being arrested with Lt. Dan Choi at the White House fence and, as a White House guest, at the signing of the repeal of DADT. She has continued to pressure President Obama to be the fierce advocate he campaigned to be & has been arrested locally to challenge a conservative city council to stop discriminating against the LGBT community.

Melissa R. Michelson (Ph.D. Yale University, 1994) is Professor of Political Science at Menlo College. She is coauthor of Mobilizing Inclusion: Redefining Citizenship through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (2012), which received the 2013 Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. Her scholarship focuses on Latino political attitudes and behavior, voter mobilization field experiments, and public opinion on same-sex marriage. She is currently writing two co-authored books: Living the Dream, examining the attitudes of undocumented Latino immigrants about immigration policy, and Listen, We Need to Talk, describing field experiments testing how to activate in-group identities to generate attitudinal change on LGBT rights such as same-sex marriage.

Melissa Murray joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2006. She teaches Family Law, Criminal Law, Advanced Topics in Family Law, and Constitutional Law. Murray is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar and an Echols Scholar, and Yale Law School, where she was notes development editor of the Yale Law Journal. While in law school, she earned special recognition as an NAACP- LDF/Shearman & Sterling Scholar and was a semifinalist of Morris Tyler Moot Court. Following law school, Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Murray is a member of the New York bar. Her research focuses on the roles that criminal law and family law play in articulating the legal parameters of intimate life, and encompasses such topics as marriage and its alternatives, the legal regulation of sex and sexuality, the marriage equality debate, and the legal recognition of caregiving. Her publications have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. In 2013, Murray's article, "What's So New About the New Illegitimacy?," was awarded the Dukeminier Awards' Michael Cunningham Prize as one of the best sexual orientation and gender identity law review articles of 2012. Her article, "Marriage as Punishment," won the Association of American Law Schools' 2010-2011 Scholarly Papers Competition for faculty members with fewer than five years of law teaching. "Marriage as Punishment" was also selected by the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Women in Legal Education as a winner of the 2010-2011 New Voices in Gender Studies scholarly paper competition. In 2010, Murray was awarded the Association of American Law School's Derrick A. Bell Award, which is given to a junior faculty member who has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice. In 2011, Murray was elected to the membership of the American Law Institute.

Douglas NeJaime is Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, where he teaches in the areas of family law, law and sexuality, and constitutional law. Before joining the UC Irvine faculty, he was Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the Sears Law Teaching Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. He is a two-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation legal scholarship published in the previous year, and the 2011 recipient of Loyola’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brown University.

Nathaniel Persily is James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford. An award- winning teacher and nationally recognized constitutional law expert, Professor Persily focuses on the law of democracy, addressing issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, and redistricting. A sought-after nonpartisan voice in voting rights, he has served as a court-appointed expert drawing up legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland, and New York and as special master for the redistricting of Connecticut’s congressional districts. Professor Persily is also at the forefront of data-driven research in the field, most notably with DrawCongress.org, a website he developed that serves as a repository for nonpartisan congressional redistricting plans for all 50 states. The website is the first ever to present a nonpartisan redistricting plan for the entire U.S. House of Representatives. His other principal area of scholarly interest concerns American public opinion toward various constitutional controversies. He designed the Constitutional Attitudes Survey, a national public opinion poll executed in both 2009 and 2010.

Professor Persily has co-edited two books with Oxford Press. The first, Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (2008), examines the effects of Supreme Court decisions on American public opinion and in areas such as desegregation, criminal rights, abortion, gay rights, federalism, school prayer, and the death penalty. The second, The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications (forthcoming May 2013), presents expert analysis of NFIB v. Sebelius from the nation’s leading professors of constitutional and health law. Persily has also published dozens of articles in both scholarly publications and popular media on the legal regulation of political parties, on issues surrounding the census and redistricting process, on voting rights, and on campaign finance reform. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford Law School in July 2013, Professor Persily was the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia Law School, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Law and Politics.

Ellen D.B. Riggle is professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is co-founder of PrismResearch.org. Her research focuses on positive identity, minority stress and well-being for LGBT individuals in the ecological system. Information about related publications and current research can be found at www.PrismResearch.org.

Michael Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, is a social demographer who studies race, ethnicity, and family structure, the family's effect on children, and the history of the family. Rosenfeld is interested in mate selection as a social as well as a personal process. He is the author of numerous articles and the 2007 book, The Age of Independence, from Harvard University Press. He is the principal investigator of an NSF-funded nationally representative longitudinal study of couples, which includes an oversample of same-sex couples, and which is revolutionizing our understanding of how couples meet, and what keeps couples together.

Sharon S. Rostosky is professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Kentucky. She is co-founder of PrismResearch.org. Her research focuses on minority stress and well-being for LGBT individuals and same-sex couples. She is co-author of A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well- Being (2012) and Happy Together: How Same-Sex Couples can Conquer the Challenges of Minority Stress and Flourish (forthcoming).

Kenneth Sherrill is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Hunter College, CUNY. He has been studying the politics of LGBT rights for over forty years and presented the American Political Science Association's first empirical paper on the subject, "Leaders in the Gay Activist Movement: The Problem of Finding the Followers" in 1973. Since then, he has published several articles on the subject in scholarly journals. Sherrill has served as an expert witness in numerous LGBT-rights cases, notably in Romer v. Evans and the Equality Foundation case as well as in several defending the right of members of the armed forces to serve. With Marc Wolinsky, he is author of the prize-winning volume, "Gays and the Military". He has served on the American Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of in the Profession and as chair and program chair of the association's LGBT caucus. In addition, he has been active in electoral politics, becoming New York's first openly gay elected official (Democratic District Leader) in 1977. Sherrill's current work is on the political beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of LGBT people.

Michelangelo Signorile is Editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices. He is an author, journalist and commentator, and the host of "The Michelangelo Signorile Show," which airs each weekday on SiriusXM Progress, channel.Signorile has served as editor-at-large and columnist for The Advocate, and editor-at-large and columnist for Out Magazine.. He is the author of several books, including Queer in America, a seminal book on the gay closet, and Life Outside, a finalist for The New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Signorile has covered LGBT politics and culture for over 20 years and is a regular guest on television news programs.

Christopher Skovron is a PhD student in political science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on representation in American politics.

Charles Anthony Smith received his PhD from the University of California-San Diego (2004) and his JD from the University of Florida (1987). He is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of War Crimes Trials: from Charles I to Bush II (Cambridge University Press 2012). Prior to his academic career, Professor Smith was a practicing lawyer engaged in both litigation and transactional work involving complex commercial and intellectual property.

Dara Z. Strolovitch (Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University) is Associate Professor at Princeton University, where she holds appointments in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Politics. Her interdisciplinary research explores the politics of marginalization in the United States, focusing on interest groups and social movements, political representation, the causes, constructions, and consequences of political inequalities, and the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Professor Strolovitch is the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which won the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award, the Political Organizations and Parties section's Leon Epstein Award, the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, and the Association for Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action's Virginia Hodgkinson Prize. Strolovitch also co-edited the CQ Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying (with Burdett Loomis and Peter Francia). Her work appears in several edited volumes and in journals including the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, the American Journal of Sociology, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Social Science Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Politics & Gender, the Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, and the Du Bois Review. Professor Strolovitch has received fellowships and grants from the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aspen Institute, Yale University, the Irving Louis Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Joe Sudbay has, for the past seven years, been working with progressive organizations as President of Sudbay Strategies. From November of 2004 through May of 2012, he served as a Deputy Editor of AMERICAblog.com and, beginning in June of 2009, AMERICAblog Gay. In February of 2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a Presidential news conference. In October of 2010, Joe was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down interview with President Obama. During that interview, the President first acknowledged that his views on same-sex marriage were evolving. From 1994 - 2000, Joe worked at Handgun Control, Inc, ultimately serving as Political Director. Joe has a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law and an M.P.A. from Lehigh University and received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire.

Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. A graduate of Harvard (A.B.), Oxford (M.Sc. as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale (J.D.), Kenji taught at Yale Law School from 1998 to 2008, where he served as Deputy Dean and the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law. He has published broadly in scholarly journals, such as the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, as well as in more popular venues such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Slate. He is a frequent contributor to NPR and MSNBC. He is the author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (2006) and A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice (2012). He is now at work on his third book, which analyzes the federal litigation over same-sex marriage. He is a current member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. In 2013, he became a member of Deloitte’s Inclusion External Advisory Council.